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Cisco ISD Student Experience Walkthrough Tool - Design Pillars and Blended Strategies
Cisco uses this walkthrough tool, which is aligned with its four student experience design pillars, to reflect on current actions, how those align with previously determined goals, and next steps to be taken to meet those goals.
Spotlights & Case Studies
Retrieval Practice - Power Tools for Instruction: IgnitED Research Insight
This installment of our series connecting learning science and instructional practice focuses on how retrieving information helps students learn.
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Retrieval Practice - Power Tools for Instruction: IgnitED Research Video
In this video installment of IgnitED Research, a series that aims to build stronger connections between learning science and instructional practice, we look at retrieval and how it affects the process of learning.
Strategies
Building Consistency in Family Engagement Through Common Process and Tools
In response to the pandemic, Cedar Rapids Community School district implemented a district-wide family engagement plan based around quarterly phone calls to surface needs and concerns from families.
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Practitioner Toolkit: Learning Together In Socially Distanced Classrooms
In-person learning with social distancing has many educators wondering how to adjust their teaching strategies. This toolkit offers ideas to incorporate one-on-one, small-group, and collaborative learning while staying six feet apart.
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Practitioner Toolkit: Starting Points for Identifying and Supporting Individual Student Needs
This resource includes suggestions on how to assess key strengths and gaps in both academic and non-academic areas and offers practical ideas for providing targeted support during the pandemic with a focus on two key domains: social-emotional...
Strategies
Conducting an Edtech Inventory
Before building or strengthening edtech processes, school and system leaders need to first take stock of what tools currently exist in their school system.
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Digital Tool Evaluation Form from Mendon-Upton Regional School District
Mendon-Upton Regional School District created an evaluation form (using Google Forms) that educators and students can use to self-report their experience with a tool. The questions are differentiated for both roles and ask about impact, usability,...
Strategies
Health and Safety Tools From the Parabola Project
Curated resources from the Parabola Project, which was a joint effort between TLA and Ariadne Labs, aiming to provide school leaders and educators with evidence-backed information about reopening following the COVID-19 pandemic
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Strengthening Local Assessment Systems for Personalized, Proficiency-Based Education: Strategies and Tools for Professional Learning
This report describes Vermont’s convenings to support schools, districts, and other education organizations seeking to create high-quality local comprehensive systems of assessments. It can serve as a resource for schools, districts, and states that...
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Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Provides an Overview of Creating Tech Tools
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares how the school has worked to create and develop custom applications to support integrations and student and teacher workflow. Transcript: Jill Tew: the first thing that we did this...
